Tuesday, February 6


The caricatures of Mahomet carry out “Charlie Hebdo” in front of justice The lawsuit of the satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo opens, Wednesday February 7 in front of the correctional court of Paris. The newspaper and its director of the publication, Philippe Valley, are continued by the Union of the Islamic organizations of France (UOIF) and the Large Mosque of Paris (GMP) to have published caricatures of Mahomet in February 2006. The weekly magazine wanted to thus answer the vagueness of violent demonstrations which had burst, at the end of 2005, in the Moslem world after the publication of drawings discussed in the Danish press, of the monk having judged these drawings blasphématoires or racists. Among the three drawings blamed, two had already been published in Denmark in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in September 2005. Third is signed of the French caricaturist Cabu. Le Monde

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